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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

The Sounding by Carrie Salo

Welcome Carrie Salo and her climatic book, The Sounding.

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The Sounding

By Carrie Salo

Book Description:

In the Book of Revelation, a man named John has a prophetic
dream.He dreams of the final prophecies
that will come to pass – and the seven archangels that guard them.Each angel waits to sound their trumpet at
God’s appointed time, preparing humanity to fight and win the final battle.

2,000 years later, Father Chris Mognahan is a member of the
Hetairia Melchizedek, a secret society within the Catholic Church that studies
Biblical omens. The society asks Chris to investigate an unusually grotesque
crime – a murder on a college campus where the killer's hand literally burned
off the victim's face.

While the killing seems isolated at first, the society ties
the murder to the final Biblical prophecy and a terrifying omen that the order
of the prophecies is about to be disrupted. The final battle is coming too soon
– long before humanity is prepared to win it.

Suddenly, Chris finds himself fighting against time and hell
to keep the prophecies in order and stop an early Armageddon. He is joined by a
band of unlikely allies, and together they find themselves in Rome above the
Vatican Necropolis – the city of the dead – where the future is revealed to
them in ancient texts.

They are not alone, however; an evil as old as time itself
hunts them. As they travel across continents on their mission, the demonic
force follows relentlessly, waiting in every shadowed corner, and every dark
place.

As Armageddon descends, Father Chris finds that his only
hope lies in a young woman within the group who has a secret gift – and their
belief that God Himself may have sent her to keep the final angelic trumpet
from sounding out the early end of the Earth.

Lorenze strapped his uniform on, knowing where every
clasp and buckle fell exactly. Still, something about it felt
foreign: he had not worn it in several days. Several very, very long
days.

The red, blue and yellow stripes that Michelangelo designed
for the guard centuries earlier: many men fell under those colors. He
knew their names by heart. And he promised to join them if called
to…

…Lorenze propelled himself to the other side of the
room where the society had left a small stockpile of weapons. He
pulled out the sniper’s rifle case and its box of bullets. With hard
clicks, he opened the case to see that all was in order. The parts
gleamed and winked at him in the light like so many eyes.

More gently, Lorenze lifted the sight from the
case. It was heavy to his hand. He put it to his eye and some
miniscule scratch in the floor became like a canyon.

Lorenze closed the case. He surveyed the
room, looked again at the uniform. He only had a few minutes
left. He knelt to pray.

But what was there to pray for? Should he pray
for their lives, for their safety? Could he ask that God grant them
success on a murder mission? Should he pray for time or protection,
or just for the world not to die?

In the end with his last few minutes, Lorenze prayed
for the soul of another assassin. One who also betrayed innocence
for the greater good. Remiel had, after all, been right –
they were in common with a certain other fallen disciple. And so,
with his eyes squeezed shut, Lorenze prayed for mercy for Judas
Iscariot. For if Judas – that tool of fate led to betray history’s
most innocent man – was able to find God’s forgiveness, perhaps so might he.

Bio:

Carrie Salo is a dark storyteller and emerging author of
supernatural thrillers.Classically
trained at an Ivy League university, she studied the works of master
storytellers seven stories underground in the muffled heart of one of the
world's largest libraries.Carrie looks
to wield unrelenting suspense in her own exploration of all things (especially
true things) that keep us awake at night.Her extensive travels have led her to many haunted places, including the
private, underground catacombs of the Vatican.The Sounding is her debut novel.